Good job to Pilgrims so far, the way things are going it looks like end of Monday you will be awarded the prize. When the final tally is complete I will have Jason send all the credits to the winning alliance leader to distribute to his alliance mates as he deems fit

Updates regarding the tournament will come from Mr Edward Hyde, I quit and am in vacation mode for the foreseeable future, thank you everyone for the memories, I have too much in life to deal with right now than to worry about an online game.

Matt Hirschfelt of BFG has agreed to offer up prize pool of 500k credits to be split among the winning team, John Fury of Rage has offered up 300k credits to this effect as well, so far the total prize pool will be a split of 800k credits.

1) 5 active at all times (out of dmode at all times who are not in pmode) to eliminate the need for a plag rule.

2) points set to maximum which is 1 trillion

3) free for all (this means all participating alliances are targets)

4) when you win a war you will send a new declaration immediately, the losing alliance has up to 24 hrs to accept (this allows the losing alliance to make sure their players are ok, if able to accept the accept don't drag this out please)

5) we will be going each of the 2 rounds for 21 days each round, if you win a war redeclare war and adjust as needed with a short 7 day pause between the 2 rounds. If both finalists want to go at it immediately I am fine with that.

6) in the unlikely even I end up having to leave to go fight a wildland fire during the tournament MrEdward Hyde is named as my tournament second in charge, he will notify everyone if that happens.

7) we will be civilized to each other, we don't want our rivalries to get out of hand because we are all passionate about our home teams.

8)Last day to have all of our participants in the tournament is day before each round starts. So let's kick the tournament off on Monday May 13 @ 10am Eastern Time zone USA. Last day to enter team mates into alliances is May 12 mother's day. Basically give everyone 24 hrs to know who the targets are. We can plan as much as we want, we all mostly know each other's teams.

Tournaments are an agreement between participating alliances to battle it out under certain pre-set terms. BFG has nothing to do with it, I honestly haven't even asked Matt or Jason to provide credits this time as a prize, last tournament I couldn't convince Matt out of very much, don't get me wrong I appreciate that they have been willing to provide incentives before.